date

date,

name for a palmpalm,common name for members of the Palmae, a large family of chiefly tropical trees, shrubs, and vines. Most species are treelike, characterized by a crown of compound leaves, called fronds, terminating a tall, woody, unbranched stem......Click the link for more information. (Phoenix dactylifera) and for its edible fruit. Probably native to Arabia and North Africa, it has from earliest times been a principal food in many desert and tropical regions. For some 4,000 years it has been grown near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. It is cultivated in many other warm regions, including parts of the SW United States and Mexico.

The trees sometimes reach a height of 100 ft (30.5 m) and yield fruit for generations. Staminate (male) and pistillate (female) flowers are borne on separate trees, and pollination of those grown commercially is usually done by hand. Seedless dates may be produced without pollination but they are inferior. Heavy, pendant clusters of the sweet, nutritious fruits are produced; the yield after maturity (10 to 15 years) is usually from 100 to 200 lb (45–90 kg) or more per tree annually. Each fruit is 1 to 3 in. (2.54–7.6 cm) long, reddish brown or yellowish brown, and somewhat cylindrical or oblong. When ripe, the bunches of fruit are cut intact from the palm and matured in a warm place.

In the Old World, a sugar and a fermented drink are made from the sap of the date palm and other species of Phoenix, and the seeds are sometimes roasted and used as a coffee substitute or pressed for oil, leaving a residue useful for stock feed. The wood of the trunk is often used in construction and the leaves are used for weaving mats and baskets.

Dates are classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem)......Click the link for more information., class Liliopsida, order Arecales, family Palmae.

Date

the fruit of the date palm. Dates are eaten fresh or dried and are used to make various dishes. They are a major food in the Arabic countries, where no fewer than 100 dishes are made from them. They contain 62–71 percent sugar, 1–2.5 percent protein, and 2.5 percent fat. Depending on the variety of date palm, the fruits dry out slightly or remain soft.

date

(convention, data)

A string unique to a time duration of 24
hours between 2 successive midnights defined by the local time
zone. The specific representation of a date will depend on
which calendar convention is in force; e.g., Gregorian,
Islamic, Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew etc. as well as local
ordering conventions such as UK: day/month/year, US:
month/day/year.

Inputting and outputting dates on computers is greatly
complicated by these localisation issues which is why they
tend to operate on dates internally in some unified form such
as seconds past midnight at the start of the first of January
1970.

Many software and hardware representations of dates allow only
two digits for the year, leading to the year 2000 problem.

Spider was the first to see the date, and ere any knew what his intention was he raised himself to his feet, and lunged over the side of the boat, to disappear forever into the green depths beneath--the coin had not been the 1875 piece.

To them there seemed not the slightest difference that could be detected other than the dates.

I can think of no means of ascertaining the date at present," I said, "because I can think of no persons who are sure to know it, but Count Fosco and Sir Percival Glyde.

We must persist to the last in hunting down the date of Laura's journey.

You mean," said Marian, "the discovery that Laura did not leave Blackwater Park till after the date of her death on the doctor's certificate?

In that case, she must have started on the twenty-sixth, and must have come to London one day after the date of her own death on the doctor's certificate.

We know that his departure followed Laura's after the lapse of a few hours, and we may get at the date in that way.

Dawson's books certainly showed when he had resumed his attendance on Miss Halcombe at Blackwater Park, but it was not possible to calculate back from this date with any exactness, without such help from Mrs.

Dawson, I resolved to try next if I could establish the date of Sir Percival's arrival at Knowlesbury.

She remembered her master calling her out of bed, and remembered his frightening her by swearing--but the date at which the occurrence happened was, as she honestly acknowledged, "quite beyond her.

There is no need to describe what passed between us--it ended, as all my other attempts to discover the date had ended.

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